Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-09-11
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About The Railroad FaciIities-iPiy
Wheeling and Lake Erie.
Now is the time for Martins Ferry to
agitate the matter of more railroads and
better and cheaper shipping facilities.
Our people have been pounding away uu-
successfully for years trying to do some
thing which in its very nature was imPos-
sible and impracticable, viz: draw rail-
roads TO this city with nothing to give them
as a terminal inducement, but the trade
we, as city, possess. OF course our man
ufacturing interests, make this desirable
place for a railroad to come to, but still
we are not big enough to draw a railroad
when we are working alone. When peo-
pie, who are now grown men, were small
boys, shoemakers, grocers, carpenters,
blacksmiths, and in fact almost
the entire community, was putting
ND money to buy stock in the Wheeling
and Lake Erie. This enterprise has never
been consumated, principally because, to
come here was no particular advantage,
unless some convenient means Of getting
to Wheeling ID the East were afforded.
Even yet the building of this road hangs
with much weight on the probability OF
the bridge across the Ohio being built. AS
we said before, now is the time for Mar
tins Ferry to act. Wheeling Is being
aroused and the Commissioners OF Ohio
county have taken steps looking to the en-
couraging of the enterprise. The B. & o.
deal has awakened Wheeling, and in fact
nearly all of West Virginia, to realiza-
ton of the fact that unless
there are more railroads 10
compete with the Pennsylvania Company's
monopoly their shipping facilities are
reduced to a minimum, and the rates for
carrying freight may be pushed up to any
notch which may suit the soulless mono
poly. That state of affairs in West Vir-
ginia and along the B. & o. does not
directly inconvenience Martins Ferry,
but, at the same time if the scare 1t has
given those people will work to our ad-
vantage by getting for US bridge and half
dozen more railroads; as we said before
now Is the time to act. Grab quick, and
hang TO the opportunity till something
comes. With West Virginia in the pre-
dicament above mentioned, she will help
US to get what we need; bridge across
the Ohio river, and lots Of railroad con-
necti0Ds.
The ordinance accepted by the Wheeling
Natural Gas Company, under which that
concern filled our streets with pipes land
mounds), specifically states that the gas
company shall at its own expense have the
streets, alleys, cutters, curbing, pave
ments, crossings, culverts, sewers, and in
| fact everything imaginable which might
be displaced or medded with in any way
while putting in their mains and connec-
tions, in precisely the same condition as
originally found. A man with one eye,
and that one color blind, can see that the
company has not complied with its con-
tract, and that our streets are in most
miserable and unsightly condition, be-
sides being actually dangerous in some
places. Who is to blame for these things?
Is it the City Commissioner We are in
clined to think it is. He is paid by the
gas company two dollars per day for seeing
that the provisions of the ordinance are
complied with, and still, we fad the streets
in the condition mentioned. In Wheel
ing, where this same company dug up the
streets, the earth was rammed back into
the ditch, and the paving replaced, and
all surplus earth hauled away. The
streets there are in just as good condition
after the work is done as before, while here
we are forced to drive over and look upon
disgustingly ugly mounds all through the
streets. People excuse the condition Of
the streets by saying that they are put n
their present condition by the laying of
the gas pipes. That is no excuse at all.
Had the City Commissioner and the City
Coancil, which is his boss, done their
duty and forced the Gas company to live
ust as good as before. OF course the con-
tractor who laid the water pipes, has left
the streets in bad condition, as well as the
Gas Company, but he is under heavy bond
for his work, and besides that, the Water
Works Trustees hold about $1,000 of his
money till the work is tested and in
spected.
Misses Marie and Eliza Cattell, of
Salem, o., left yesterday after a short stay
in this city. The young ladies had been
attending Yearly Meeting at Mt Pleasant.
Miss Nellie Atwell, a nineteen-year old
daughter of West Atwell, Of Fifth street,
died yesterday and will be buried in Mt.
Zion Cemetery to-day at 2 p. m.
LOsT.-A fat key ring bearing the name
John P. Carney, and containing two keys.
The finder will confer favor by returning
the same to Lock Box 260, Martins Ferry
Postoffice
The past week has been very quiet one
in police circles here, there being but one
arrest reported.
James Bently, of Grafton, W. Va, was
in the city yesterday.
Michael Chute left yesterday for New
Brighton, Pa, to work in the Dithridge
Glass Works,
Rev. J. G. PiCkens returned from Dako
ia, where he has been in charge of pas
forage.
Mr. John Parker is the guest of his
brother, Oliver Parker, of Walnut street.
W. S. Tweed and family, Of Steuben-
Vile, are the guests Of DR.. J. W. Darrsh,
on the Height.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert link left yester-
day morning for Cincinnati, to Re gone
several days.
On Saturday next the farmers in the
vicinity Of Stull's school house, about
three miles west of this city, will hold a
Farmer Fair or Basket Picnic Everyone
is invited, and all farmers are requested to
bring a sample Of some farm product.
Rev. J. H. Blackford, of West Lafayette,
n ia the uueat nf friends in this CITY